Formed from scorn towards the music industry, and a desire to take shit back to its true blue, completely DIY roots, Dead Kelly have hailed from Yandina – an area home to little over 2000 people – on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, for at least ten years. Could be longer but it’s not that important – the band’s iconic, alright? They’re the most truly Australian Aussie metal band to ever exist, and they’d never even appeared live until a little guest appearance on stage with King Parrot back in April.
Though such viral hits as ‘Fuck Off Cunt’ are where it started, it wasn’t until the creative powers of balaclava-donned vocalist Pine Cone Throat and mysteriously hunting knife-wielding guitarist The Stanley Knife really honed in what it is that makes Dead Kelly what it is today. These two absolute legends bashed a bunch of tunes together during smoko and stamped their filthy work boots on the heads of any shit cunts that said they couldn’t do it with the release of their debut album Sons of The Southern Cross in 2014. The cartoon mini-series sensation The Legend of Borry soon followed in three parts (Violent Soho even voted for part 1 in 2016’s Hottest 100), as well as the Bushfire EP, several classic Aussie pub rock covers, and 2017’s true blue follow up album Australian Made.
The reason I’m giving you this backstory is because some truly shithouse news has come from the Dead Kelly camp these past few weeks – and they’ve released a new song ‘Put Em Up Cunt’ to fight back at the situation and tell the man upstairs to get fucked. But anyway, an accident with a pressurized paint gun basically blew The Stanley Knife’s finger off, and after a week in hospital, the poor guy had to have his lead shredding finger amputated. The band was knee deep in the writing and recording process for new material at the time, so Pine Cone Throat soon got to work on recording vocals for one of the tracks that The Knife had laid down before losing his finger.
With this new tune firmly stating their attitude towards this setback, The Stanley Knife has vowed to learn how to play guitar again with only three fingers. Where there’s a will there’s a way. They don’t need your sympathy, but give the new song a spin, barrel over anything holding you back, and send your positive energies Dead Kelly’s way to help The Knife on his road to recovery. Dead Kelly forever.
